The Best Picture winner is soaked in what Bernard Lonergan called ‘startling strangeness.’
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Review: “The Phantom Thread” confronts the mystery of other people
To see P. T. Anderson’s new film as merely beautiful is simply not to see it.
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Review: The next generation of Palestinian women has a different kind of story to tell
For filmgoers depressed by films from Israel and Palestine, “In Between” offers a change of place and point-of-view.
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Actress who played nun in ‘Lady Bird’ liked the script ‘the moment I read it’
Lois Smith called writer-director Greta Gerwig “a remarkably talented person.”
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The Top 9 Films From 2017
Nine films that raised our faith in humanity because, after all, humans made these movies.
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‘The Last Jedi’: A New Faith, Hope and Love
‘The Last Jedi’ is a film that strips away 40 years of lacquer to highlight both the inspiration and the challenge at the heart of the “Star Wars” saga.
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What Martin Scorsese can teach us about our immigration debate
“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
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How Jesuits and Jedi are more alike than you might think
Here are the ways Jesuits are a lot like Jedi—and a few ways that they are definitely not.
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Sick of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Try these other Christmas films
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
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Boys Town turns 100 this month, so go watch the Spencer Tracy movie.
At first Father Flanagan rejected the idea of a film, but he signed on after he saw a script that he liked.